thank you, omnis!
Jon, omnis beat you to the punch. thank you very much for offering.
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'Lessons'
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tiggy - May 22, 2008 11:28:35 am PDT #6324 of 25505
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
Jon B. - May 22, 2008 11:58:49 am PDT #6325 of 25505
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
No problemo. I'll offer to do something and then have someone else do it anytime!
§ ita § - May 22, 2008 1:41:05 pm PDT #6326 of 25505
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Goddamned indecent. And water-resistant to boot.
meara - May 22, 2008 1:46:14 pm PDT #6327 of 25505
...I don't get it, ita. What's indecent about that? (it being a link from ita, I was expecting something...raunchy. And when it was a flash drive, I was like..."OK, am I missing something? Is this a...vibrating flash drive? A...taser flash drive?")
Sean K - May 22, 2008 1:50:16 pm PDT #6328 of 25505
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
32 gigabyte flash drive for a hundred dollars. That's pretty jaw-dropping.
§ ita § - May 22, 2008 1:54:54 pm PDT #6329 of 25505
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's a phenomenal amount of storage for the price, and for the size. I mean--that just goes in your pocket. How long ago was it that they were shipping laptops with that size hard drives? Not long enough.
meara - May 22, 2008 1:56:29 pm PDT #6330 of 25505
Heh. OK, everybody. Safe to click on that ita link there!
Ginger - May 22, 2008 2:05:00 pm PDT #6331 of 25505
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Isn't this the point at which I talk about 256K machines and walking to school in the snow uphill both ways?
amych - May 22, 2008 2:08:41 pm PDT #6332 of 25505
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
256? Such a luxury!
Sean K - May 22, 2008 2:14:26 pm PDT #6333 of 25505
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Yeah, remember boggling at the 512k Macs. 512K!!!!!! Who could ever need that much computing??????
Yeah, I remember cassette drives, and even punch cards (though I never had to read or program with a punch card).
30 baud modems. 5" floppy drives. 8" floppy drives. Hard drives with plates the size of Miami. Commodore PETs. TRS-80s.
Hell, I remember being astounded by 16 colors.